- Core curriculum requirements:
- Writing in the major
- Capstone in the major
- This writing-intensive course views “writing as a mode of learning”
- employs writing assignments as ways of helping students learn the material rather than as vehicles for regurgitating material.
- A major instructional focus is on the writing process through detailed evaluation, feedback, and revision opportunities
- highlights multiple stages of the writing process
- e.g., idea formulation, refinement of argument/hypothesis, structuring/outlining, drafting, revising
- Students should write no fewer than 30 pages
- includes all pages in all stages of the writing process (i.e., drafts, early versions, outlines, revisions).